Things got a little heated between TODAY entertainment editor Richard "Dickie" Wilkins and Nova FM hostMichael "Wippa" Wipfli when they went mic-to-mic in a rap battle.

Dickie started it off by defending his hair, his tan, and his career achievements.

"The name is Dickie, I'm the bloke on TV. I talk to the stars, they're all nice to me," he rapped. "My hair is real, my tan is too, my favourite job would be to drum for U2. Smooth on the radio, early on TODAY, once upon a time I was on Hey Hey."

"I don't wear speedos, but I don't mind a party, and I don't mind putting some lamb on the barbie," he added, referring to his stint in a 2012 lamb ad.

Wippa fired a burning response back to the 62-year-old presenter.

"Richard Wilkins, you bloody Aussie, whatever I say next, I'm not sorry. Ladies think he's one of a kind: Big hands, big hair, the ultimate find. Little black book like no other, it's chockers, it's your bread and butter," he rapped, before specifying that the book is filled with "out of control mothers".

"WHAT?!" Dickie exclaimed.

That wasn't Wippa's final jab. He also took aim at Dickie's live-TV faux pas in which he declared Jeff Goldblum dead. Yep, he went there.

While Dickie took it all on the chin, rap battle judge Sarah McGilvray called Wippa's rap "rude"…and declared Dickie the winner.

It's the second time this week Dickie's hair has entered the crossfire. On Wednesday, the spiky-coiffed presenter pretended to storm out of TODAY after his colleague Sylvia Jeffreys suggested his hair might have disturbed a toddler who featured in a viral video.